In 2009 Obama Named Turkey Leader, Tayyip Erdogan A Best Friend of Five World Leaders - who are the other four?

​ 10-2-16, Gatestone -- Soon after his 2008 election, Obama began to cultivate a private relationship with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who was then Prime Minister). In a 2012 Time interview, Obama named Erdogan as one of the five world leaders with whom he had the strongest bonds. In 2011, Tom Donilon, the president's former national security advisor, said that Obama regarded Erdogan as "a man of principle, and also a man of action." [..snip]

Currently, the Turks vehemently demand the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim preacher in self-exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 and the prime suspect in the July 15 coup attempt against Erdogan's government. Things ain't so merry in Obamaland ...More: www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9047/turkey-muslim-democracy